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SpiritualitySpirituality \Spir`it*u*al"i*ty\, n.; pl. [L. spiritualitas: cf. F.
spiritualit['e].] 1. The quality or state of being spiritual; incorporeality; heavenly-mindedness or other-worldliness.
• (Eccl.) That which belongs to the church, or to a person as an ecclesiastic, or to religion, as distinct from temporalities.
• An ecclesiastical body; the whole body of the clergy, as distinct from, or opposed to, the temporality.
• Seeing all around us with different eyes and uniting the opposites by kenotic love
Spirituality
• In the ordinary• In the world• What are your sacred spaces and places?• Where do you encounter the holy• Little clerics, we are not
• Models of familiar Spirituality stem from
– Monastic settings– Clerical settings, liturgies– Church settings
• Secular Spirituality/Sanctity requires us to look beyond the familiar
• Christianity is forward looking, always seeking to Christify all of creation, the Cosmos, and through our active participation in Christian Life to make the love of God visible.
• We often prefer to be simply observers, to hold tight to the past, comfortable with what is know, afraid to risk becoming crucified love!
Shame-less plugGospel to Life – Life to Gospel
• Listen to the Gospel, hear the words of the Eternal Word
• Contemplate Jesus “Is there any suffering like mine” the Mirror
• Put the Gospel into Action
The ultimate goals of Christianity
• To unify the temporal and spiritual world, living today, in the NOW and being an expression of kenotic love. Crucified Love.
• Seeking holiness in the every day ordinary world, the places made sacred by the Incarnation – God’s self-empting into fragile, messy humanity
• By loving every facet of the world, to take it seriously, embrace it and transform it into the fullness of Christ.
• To actively participate with the Father’s co-re-creation of the world, by embracing the self-empting love of the Cross
• To actively bear God in us and bring him, like Mary to the world
• Approach all life with:
• Gratefulness and Joy• Different seeing eyes• Sense of family• Intrinsic goodness• Openness• Self-empting and joyful suffering